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Famous Quotes about Zen
 A Zen master used to say, "It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner." 
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: "Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust."
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.
Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real
happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.
Do not seek the truth. Only cease to cherish opinions.
Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.
In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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